Overseas Voters Shut Out

This smells fishy.  But maybe I'm just paranoid.

Americans abroad, whose votes could be crucial if the Nov. 2 presidential election proves close, are being denied access to a U.S. Department of Defense Web site designed to make it easier for them to cast absentee ballots.

The problem concerns blocks placed on access to the Web site of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, a Defense Department division to help expatriate American voters, including servicemen and women. The site's address is www.fvap.gov.

In an e-mail, a site Web manager, Susan Leader, said access is being refused to some Internet service providers that were used by hackers to attack U.S. government sites.

Here's the link: Yahoo News story about overseas voters

Seems really easy to set up a safe site just for downloading a form.  And if someone wanted to hack, I'm sure they could find one of the ISPs that our government does allow in 5 minutes.  This makes no sense.

Great that the Democratic Party set up a site to counteract our government's negligence.